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A week ago, I asked which anime character would give Saitama of One Punch Man a challenging fight. 30 characters were presented, and 11,457 votes were cast! Here are the top 11 characters you think would give Saitama a challenging fight.

1. The girls from Nisekoi Friendships are destroyed and families are torn apart over who the best girl in Nisekoi is (hint: it's. . . hold on let me get door). It's a cop out, but it's no lie that all the girls are perfect in their own way.

Most schools expect their students to attend classes punctually and students are commonly penalized when they fail to do so. At a certain school in China, a teacher used to punish his students by making them write English sentences when they were ...

Louise Sforzur, Yukafin Doll, Ayami Chercy Snow announced their graduation from Afilia Saga. The 3 girls will leave the idol group next year. Ayami's last live performance will be held on February 5, 2016 at Akasaka Blitz, Tokyo.

The broadcast dates of episode 14, "Lord of the Takanashi," of the TV anime Working! ! ! which began broadcasting this summer have been confirmed. The final episode will be a 1-hour special. The episode will air on Tokyo MX, Tochigi TV, and Gunma ...

Turner Broadcasting's Asia-based action and anime channel Toonami has picked up Dragon Ball Super, the latest installment in Toei Animation's popular Dragon Ball franchise. The 52 x half-hour series is the first all-new Dragon Ball television seri...

What does Final Fantasy and Disney have in common? Not much actually (except for Kingdom Hearts and legions of dedicated fans. ) This amazing artist took Final Fantasy characters a gave them a Disney-like touch.

Do you love you anime crush enough to sit on his face? You know an anime franchise has a loyal following when merchandisers start making pillows festooned with artwork of its individual characters. And while they're called dakimakura, or "huggy pi...

Kiko Mizuhara's love life has been a hot topic as of late. She was previously in a complicated relationship with Big Bang member G-Dragon. Now, she's rumored to have found a new man. That new man is Nomura Shuhei.

Hardcore cooking anime Shokugeki no Soma has fired up a new trailer for its upcoming 3DS game, showing off little actual gameplay beyond dialogue screens while reusing quite a few scenes from the anime; fans can at least rest easy knowing that the...

Three-member anime voice actress idol unit Earphones has posted a short version music video for their latest song "Seichou! Zenryoku Cinderella" (Growing Up! Full Power Cinderella) which will be included in their upcoming 1st full album "MIRACLE M...

Avex has posted a short version music video for six-member Japanese yankee rock band Kishidan's upcoming 20th single "Warera Omou, Yueni Warera Ari (We think, therefore We are)" on its official YouTube channel, It is now featured as the theme song...

How many of you dream of making your own big debut in anime? I believe that in everyone, there is that little dream of creating something of your own. Your own novel. Your own platformer. Your own creative dream.

Web Newtype has announced that Mamoru Nagano's sci-fi manga saga The Five Star Stories will return to the upcoming March 2016 issue of Kadokawa's Newtype monthly magazine to be published on February 10, 2016.

Tomorrow marks the debut of the Attack on Titan: Junior High English dub, which will kick off FUNimation's Dubbletalk Block for the evening. The premiere is set for Wednesday, November 11 at 8:00pm ET, so FUNimation took the opportunity to go ahea...

The tempting shinobi action of Senran Kagura: Estival Versus has likely tantalized western audiences with its latest trailer, showcasing the busty girls doing what they do best and then some, which will no doubt garner more spiteful criticism for ...

Fantasy light novel adaptation Chaika - the Coffin Princess is the subject of Sentai Filmworks' latest English dub cast roll-out and they're now up to the title role with news that Kira Vincent-Davis stars as Chaika Trabant.

By Casey . November 11, 2015 . 8:30am NIS America has released a new trailer to kick off the launch of their Wii U title, Rodea the Sky Soldier. Here's a look at the official video. The trailer introduces us to many of the game's characters, and a...

Visual novels developers have once again taken the medium to bizarre places as "Sukerunton To Koi Ni" makes its appearance, featuring a cast of skeletons as the potential lovers-to-be to perhaps please the more extremely inclined fetishists, thoug...

By Sato . November 10, 2015 . 6:30am Not much is known about SNK Playmore's upcoming fighter, The King of Fighters XIV, but YouTuber ATRyoSakazaki put together a nice comparison video with it and the previous title to give us an idea on how it com...

Detective Conan, also known as Case Closed! , is quite popular in China. And when the latest Detective Cona film, Flowers of Inferno, opened in the country, a certain cinema decided to use life-size statues of some of the characters to help promot...

The winners of "MTV VMAJ 2015" (VIDEO MUSIC AWARDS JAPAN) have been announced. The polls were open for a period of one month on the official website for "MTV VMAJ 2015″. As a result, the Best Male Video went to Hoshino Gen's "SUN" and the Best Fem...

Compile Heart's latest trailer for their upcoming PlayStation Vita dungeon crawler Death Beneath the Labyrinth gives us a closer look at its five main heroines and villains. Death Beneath the Labyrinth will release in Japan on December 17, 2015 fo...

Looks like Chase is going to have a movie exclusive form in the upcoming V-Cinema made-to-video movie, Kamen Rider Drive Saga: Kamen Rider Chaser. Chase, in his Machine Chaser form and equipped with the Super Rhino Viral core, will evolve in this ...

Sailor Moon and fashion shop Honey Salon are collaborating to release a string of new products in time for the holidays to be sold at Honey Salon locations in Japan. Anime News Network's merchandise coverage sponsored by Omakase and Tokyo Otaku Mode.

EXO tops the singles chart with debut Japanese single Love Me Right ~ romantic universe ~ selling over 146,000 copies. Anime tied new releases are led by Pile at #7 with Dream Trigger theme for World Trigger and Yui Horie at #12 with Asymmetry ope...

NIS America announced that Stranger of Sword City, the PlayStation Vita dungeon crawler by Experience, is headed to North America and Europe in March 2016. Here are details from the official website: About Stranger of Sword City: Your flight crash...

One of the more enjoyable shows hitting this season that's not getting anywhere near enough attention is that of HackaDoll. Part of the Ultra Super Anime Time block that Crunchyroll is simulcasting, we missed this over the weekend where Avex Pictu...

Japanese animation studio, Sanzigen, is doing an original anime as part of their 10th anniversary celebrations. The studio recently launched a new twitter page and official website, which officially announces this new project, which is titled Bubu...

5 Flares Twitter 2 Facebook 2 Google+ 0 Reddit 0 Buffer 0 StumbleUpon 1 5 Flares × One Piece is getting yet another anime special, and it is scheduled to air this December 2015! The special is titled "Adventure of Nevlandia," and it will feature t...